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New directions in the history of aviation / Dominick A. Pisano --
The airplane and the American experience / Roger Bilstein --
The greatest show not on earth : the confrontation between utility and entertainment in aviation / Dominick A. Pisano --
The man nobody knows : Charles A. Lindbergh and the culture of celebrity / Charles L. Ponce de Leon --
"Great shadow in the sky" : the airplane in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 and the development of African American visions of aviation, 1921-1926 / Jill D. Snider --
"Who says it's a man's world?" : women's work and travel in the first decades of flight / Suzanne L. Kolm --
Experiment in the cockpit : the women airforce service pilots of World War II / Katherine Sharp Landdeck --
"The surly bonds of earth" : images of the landscape in the work of some aviator/authors, 1910-1969 / Tom D. Crouch --
The airplane and American literature / Lawrence Goldstein --
"Our future is in the air" : aviation and American art / Gerald Silk --
Transforming technology in the Army Air Corps, 1920-1940 : technology, politics, and culture for strategic bombing / Timothy Moy --"Peace is our profession" : the bombers take over / H. Bruce Franklin --
Stick and rudder university : training and the creation of the flight suit officer / John Darrell Sherwood.

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." . . a long-overdue study in the field of aviation history. . . . [W]ell worth reading for anyone with an interest in the history of aviation. It would be extremely useful in any course on the history of aviation, and also could contribute significantly to courses such as military history and modern American history. For scholars in the field, this work offers not only some valuable historical perspective on aviation, but also some invaluable insights into possibilities for future study."--- <i>Journal of Military History</i>Read more...